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The Fugitive Slave Act and the Underground Railroad ... The routes from safe-house to safe-house (houses where fugitive slaves were kept) were called lines and were roughly 15 miles long, but the distance shortened considerably the further north one got. Stopping places were called stations (Catherine Harris' home).
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The Underground Railroad was a series of safe houses and 'conductors' who helped slaves escape from slavery to the North or to abolitionists in the South. These links tell you more about this famous 'railroad.' ... The Underground Railroad: Cloaked Gateway to Freedom; The Underground Railroad is a catch-all term that refers...
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These stops to freedom were called Underground Railroad stations because they resembled stops a train would make between destinations. "Underground" refers the ... To the thousand of escaped slaves, an eight-room Federal style brick home in Newport (Fountain City), Indiana, became a safe haven on their journey to Canada.
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The efficiency of the Underground Railroad was in its versatility; like the Internet, the web of loosely connected safe houses allowed for re-routing in case searcher, hunters or spies blocked access to the next regular station.
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www.phillyburbs.com/undergroundrailroad/NJroutes.shtml
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; Click on the name of the state you want to explore. ... Where would you like to go? ... Skip to Content...
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Underground Railroad - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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The Underground Railroad was an informal network of secret routes and safe houses used by 19th century Black slaves in the United States to escape to free states and Canada with the aid of abolition...
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Underground_Railroad
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KANSAS; 1. John Brown Cabin--Osawatomie ... List of Sites for Aboard the Underground Railroad ... Underground Railroad Travel Itinerary Header...
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www.cr.nps.gov/nr/travel/underground/states.htm
www.cr.nps.gov/nr/travel/underground/states.htm
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Since then, Underground Railroad participants and their descendants have revealed not only their names, escape methods, and the code words used in written messages; they point out hiding places and safe houses with historic plaques.
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Cooling Springs Farm, located three miles north of the Potomac River in Frederick County, Maryland, is one of only a small handful of Underground Railroad safe-houses still known today in border or southern states of the United States.
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